What is "heroin addiction"

Usage examples of "heroin addiction".

I gave her the prescribed injections to quell the withdrawal symptoms of heroin addiction.

I stopped in the kitchen to read the chair again, since relapse is as much a part of the syndrome in heroin addiction as in black-lung disease.

I had found that, without any slightest doubt, Lom-bar Hisst was a paranoid schizophrenic, compounded by pronounced megalomania, confirmed by aural hallucinations, complicated by probable heroin addiction and consolidated with a consumption of amphetamines: in other words, stark, staring mad.

Remembering Joe's descent into cocaine and heroin addiction, Sally shuddered.

In 1987, when he married Melissa DeFir, a Memphis woman with a history of heroin addiction, he already had two children, a son and a daughter, from a previous marriage.

Since then Wilson had been through three wives, two humiliating bankruptcies, a heroin addiction, and one near-fatal shooting.

Roland must also help the other two battle their own demons, Eddie's being his heroin addiction and guilt over not being able to save his brother's life, and Suzannah's the war between her different personalities, one a kind and gentle woman, the other a racist psychopath.